Day 5, Kansas Wheat Harvest Report

That is day 5 of the Kansas Wheat Harvest Experiences, dropped at you by the Kansas Wheat Fee, Kansas Affiliation of Wheat Growers and the Kansas Grain and Feed Affiliation.

Kansas farm households spent Father’s Day weekend within the mix, a wheat harvest custom. Sizzling, dry, windy climate signaled the continued fast development of harvest throughout the state. Some south-central Kansas producers have sunny harvest outcomes to share whereas empathizing with farmers elsewhere that didn’t catch the identical useful rains all through the rising season. Regardless of the ultimate yield or the vacation, farm households are working collectively to maximise the 2022 Kansas wheat crop.

James Mosiman had his Arizona landlord within the mix with him when Kansas Wheat employees stopped by the harvest subject close to Walton in Harvey County. Harvest outcomes are good with yields at 53 to 78 bushels per acre, 14 p.c moisture and take a look at weights heavy at 61 to 62 kilos per bushel.

Within the subsequent subject, son Justin was operating the air-seeder to plant double-crop soybeans into the wheat stubble. The chopping and planting crew had been joined by a load of youngsters from Boulder and Kansas Metropolis and their grandfather, all of whom piled out and climbed into the cab. The grandfather remarked the sphere journey helped his grandkids see the place their bread comes from, one more household harvest custom.

In the identical space close to Walton, the Nuss household, alongside Troy Smith, labored collectively this weekend to get wheat in Harvey County harvested and straw baled for Smith’s cattle. The operation delivers straight to Ardent Mills in close by Newton, making rising high quality wheat a precedence.

Harvest outcomes to date are robust with yields at 70 bushels per acre, moisture at 11.2 to 14 p.c, take a look at weights heavy at 62 to 63 kilos per bushel and protein at 10.5 to 12 p.c.

Again in February – after an excruciating Kansas Metropolis Chiefs sport – the household went and tinkered with a 1968 Case 660 mix sitting within the treeline. After taking out their frustration, they obtained it began. Motivated, they restored the machine to operating situation, driving to southwestern Missouri to choose up components from a collector joyful to see them used. After sitting idle for near 30 years, the previous Case mix returned to the harvest subject for just a few passes.

Bonding over equipment and splitting up harvest and fieldwork tasks is a standard theme in June. From the primary day of harvest on Friday, Koby Royer, a senior at Kansas State College, was working the mix whereas his older brother Alek ran the grain truck to and from the elevator. Koby helps out on the household operation in Yoder, Royer Farms, whereas working an internship in close by Hutchinson.

Their morale is excessive, because of outcomes from fields just like the one they had been custom-cutting in Reno County on Friday – 50 bushels per acre, 64.5 kilos per bushel take a look at weight

and 13 p.c protein. The brothers are grateful for the moisture they obtained however empathize with farmers additional west that didn’t see the rain when wanted.

Hayden Peirce can be balancing serving to out on the household farm close to Castelton and dealing a summer time internship. Beginning work at six within the morning on the town, he can end up tasks as an intern earlier than hopping into the mix mid-afternoon. Peirce can be a university senior, pursuing a level in organic agricultural engineering from Kansas State College.

Utilizing the protein testing within the cab, Peirce is seeing excessive protein, starting from 11 to 16 p.c. Moisture is dry – 10 to 13 p.c – and take a look at weights are above 60 kilos per bushel. Yields are coming within the 40’s and 50’s bushels per acre. He praised the range KS Hatchett, from the Kansas Wheat Alliance, for its drought tolerance, which was put to the final word take a look at this yr. He in contrast harvest outcomes to Zenda, additionally from the Kansas Wheat Alliance, and Hatchett outperformed it.

Harvest is actually a household affair with Peirce operating the mix whereas his cousins man the grain cart and semi and his oldest brother operates the planter – all pivotal items to getting all farm work finished in June.

The 2022 Harvest Report is delivered to you by the Kansas Wheat Fee, Kansas Affiliation of Wheat Growers and the Kansas Grain and Feed Affiliation. To comply with together with harvest updates on Twitter, use #wheatharvest22. Tag us at @kansaswheat on Fb, Instagram and Twitter to share your harvest story and photographs.

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Written by Julia Debes for Kansas Wheat